Index

the angel in the machine: on the post-ironic techno-ethereal #essay #academic
applying literary analysis to the divine machinery tag on tumblr to explore concerns around technology, theology, and post-modernism. written for class - digital cultures.
09/2024

ragwort #poem #in a zine
a poem about one of my favorite so-called weeds.
07/2024

bluebirds, once removed #poem #in a zine
a poem written to process some complicated feelings i have around a certain loss.
07/2024

beyond imitation: kafka's dog on the path from art to philosophy #essay #academic
considerations on art, truth, and philosophy via franz kafka's short story, "investigations of a dog." written for literature & philosphy.
06/2024

the symposium as orgy: the eroticism of storytelling #essay #academic
essay exploring the erotics of plato's symposium. written for literature and philosophy.
05/2024

selene & endymion in 8 parts #poem #in a zine
a simple poetic imagining of the greek myth of selene & endymion.
04/2024

with what materials must we build our walls? spiritual scholarship and trauma recovery in h.d.'s "the walls do not fall" #essay #academic
explores the eclectic occultist themes within h.d.'s 43-poem sequence, "the walls do not fall," against the context of being written in the aftermath of the blitz in london. written for american poetry.
03/2024

the wolves' warmth: engendered fear and sexual liberation in the company of wolves #essay #academic
essay about the horror of gendering and the freedom of owning one's desire within the symbolic layers of the 1984 film the company of wolves. Written for gender & experimental gothic.
03/2024

artifact #poem #in a zine
a poem about human remains.
03/2024

omelas and the case against happiness #essay #academic
close reading of ursula k. le guin's short story, "the ones who walk away from omelas" and some discussion about the true worth of "happiness." written for ENG300.
03/2024

in god crawls the devil #poetry #experimental
a strange prose poem(?) about a love that careens toward dissolution.
03/2024

the little room #poem
my attempt at the poetic form of the sestina, centering a hermit sequestered in her room as she watches her dog play outside.
02/2024

the dress #poem #in a zine
a poem about childhood ghosts and/or the ghost of childhood...
01/2024

regrettably, i can't curl up and die #poem #published
a fairly personal poem about depression, passive suicidality, and living in a world that has already ended. published by nowhere girl collective.
02/2024

anchoress #poem #published
poem about interiority, intimate community, and desiring the serenity of the recluse. published in pathos literary magazine.
01/2024

pieta #poem #found poetry #in a zine
a poem created with lines found in poems and stories written by my great-grandmother about her family and home, with a particular emphasis on her son, my late grandfather.
01/2024

lair-as-womb-as-death: the reproductive-destructive power of the monster's lair in beowulf #essay #academic
essay about grendel & his mother's lair in beowulf, analyzed in the tradition of kristeva & creed. written for medieval lit.
12/2023

fall 2023 cento #poem #found poetry #in a zine
cento written with snippets of text that i encountered and enjoyed throughout the season of fall in 2023.
11/2023

thorns #poem #in a zine
poem written in the spirit of old english epics (a la beowulf), which is somewhat of a take on various fairy tale archetypes, particularly sleeping beauty/briar rose and beauty and the beast.
10/2023

garden #flash fiction #vienna
all about turning into a rosebush.
08/2023

vienna cento #poem #found poetry #vienna #in a zine
a 2-part cento written exclusively through snippets of text found or heard during my trip to vienna.
08/2023

ode to an unnamed folk song #poem #vienna in a zine
a poem about a beautiful song that i will never get to hear again.
08/2023

ekphrastic response to tower of babel #flash fiction #vienna #in a zine
a short exercise in fiction, inspired by the painting "the tower of babel" by pieter bruegel the elder.
08/2023

the hound and the heron #short story #vienna #published
a roving perspective fairy tale about a dog and two girls on a strange journey into the woods.
08/2023

ruth's four false starts #experimental #vienna
experimenting with four ways to start the same story, about a woman who recieves a mysterious dinner invitation.
08/2023

what color? #flash fiction #vienna
a quick piece exploring a poor medieval girl's newfound (and perhaps semi-blasphemous) obsession with the christian god.
08/2023

inge's ghosts #experimental #vienna
an ambiguous story told as a works cited page of fictional sources about a fictional Austrian artist.
08/2023

a short reflection on the film museum hours #reflections #vienna
some short thoughts on the indie film museum hours, which was assigned viewing in preparation for my study abroad trip to vienna. contains musings on art museums and time, loneliness, and intimacy.
07/2023

the architecture of a haunting: how the internet's backrooms illuminate classic haunted house narratives #essay #academic #in a zine
long-form essay examining the backrooms in the context of the gothic literary tradition and reflecting on its relation to the iconic haunted house narratives, the haunting of hill house and "the fall of the house of usher." written for ghosts and hauntings.
06/2023

beyond nurturing: retrieving the power of childless women in biblical texts #essay #academic
essay exploring key female figures in the bible - miriam, deborah, jael, huldah, and anna - whose power/influence does not involve child-bearing or rearing. written for feminist biblical interpretation.
06/2023

the trail #short story
a campfire-esque horror story told through the journal entries of a backpacker who encounters strange phenomena in the rocky mountains.
05/2023

embracing the third position: nonbinary knowledge systems in hilma af klint's tree of knowledge series #essay #academic
examines alternative forms of conceptualizing knowledge and ideas through af klint's "tree of knowledge" series of watercolor paintings. written for women artists and social change.
03/2023

as is her will: pagan nature worship and female agency in "aschenputtel" #essay #academic
essay which navigates the multi-layered religious themes of the grimm brothers' telling of cinderella, with particular attention paid to remaining vestiges of european polytheism and folk magick traditions. written for critical writing, and presented at the 2023 northwest undergraduate conference on literature.
12/2022

the sage #short story #in a zine
a vaguely post-apocalyptic/fantastical take on the concept of vampires, taking place in a subterranean library.
04/2022

worm #poem #in a zine
a short poem about how being born sucks.
??/2021